Re the alt-text: Maybe Gravedust’s dam-burst of joy, upon seeing Cliff’s ghost, left traces behind even as he returned to his usual solemn self. Traces in the form of something approximating humour, that is.

…typically because Gravy helped them get their revenge on whoever wronged them, I think. The ghost’s unfulfilled desire to set things right / get revenge was what was keeping them from moving on, I think.

I doubt it. By my figuring, a spirit guide like Gravedust needs a huge amount of wisdom to do his job, because if he doesn’t carefully consider what the spirit in question needs to move on, he could make said spirit’s situation worse, possibly even aggravate it into a far more dangerous form of spectre.

Sundar and his group use the word “altruist” in a very… different manner. I’m trying so hard not to call it incorrect, but… dang it, it’s incorrect and it BUGS me. >:(

Aaaaanyway, Sundar’s version of “altruist” is someone who tells everyone that what they’re doing is for the greater good when they’re really just doing it for personal profit. Which is something that Iwatani (and all politicians… and all lawyers… and all doctors… and, well, just all people in general) can be accused of doing. “Give me your farm land,” says Iwatani. “It will be used to provide for the war effort and feed the poor and develop new disease-resistant crops and revitalize the farming sector and expand the surrounding cities and cure cancer.” Really, it’ll just line his pockets with money.

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